The man was reportedly frustrated after his 7 AM flight from Islamabad wot Gilgit was cancelled due to bad weather.

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A video has gone viral on social media that shows a Pakistani passenger setting fire to his own luggage at Islamabad airport.

According to reports, the man was frustrated after his flight 7 AM Pakistan International Airlines flight (PIA) from Islamabad International Airport to Gilgit was cancelled.

The flight was delayed for technical reasons and eventually cancelled due to bad weather.

Footage of the incident has now gone viral. It shows an unnamed man igniting a cloth from his travel bag. He then uses the same piece of clothing to set fire to a pile of other clothes.

Watch the video here:

After the man set his luggage on fire, an airport official comes up to him and tries to douse the fire but gets thwarted away. Moments later, a security official confronts the man and the fire gets eventually put out by Civil Aviation Authority firefighters.

A PIA spokesperson told Dawn that passengers were moved to hotels where they waited for another flight the next day.

“No airline can risk flying a passenger plane in bad weather. PIA has opted to forgive and forget the incident that happened at Islamabad International Airport on November 15,” the spokesperson said.

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